On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 19:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> list the best thing we can do? Or is it just the best thing we
can do
> right now given our current tools? Nothing's ever perfect but their
> maybe room to try something new with regard to communication
> mechanisms... if there are people willing to put the effort in to
> build it.
Some suggestions:
- An RSS feed for *important* announcements that is picked up by default
by the package updater or similar but can be unsubscribed from if users
want.
- Ability for yum to get an error message from a repository and report it.
- Sticking important stuff on the *front* of the fedora project web site.
There is a different issue about what is said and leaving people in the
dark assuming the worst - a very bad way to create long term trust.
Exactly what
has happened right now.
An obscure announcement, the infrastructure going down, no updates, just
silence ... very poor management.
Ralf